Serbian interior ministry says Lufthansa bomb threat was fake

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BELGRADE: The Serbian interior ministry said a bomb threat which prompted the evacuation of a Lufthansa plane bound for Frankfurt on Thursday (Jul ...

BELGRADE: The Serbian interior ministry said a bomb threat which prompted the evacuation of a Lufthansa plane bound for Frankfurt on Thursday morning was fake.

Serbian state TV reported that 130 passengers and five crew members had been evacuated after boarding the 6.15am HL 1411 flight, and the plane was taken off the runway. Special police units were deployed to search the plane.An interior ministry spokesman confirmed to Reuters that the bomb threat was found to be false after checks onboard the plane.

"This morning at 6am an unknown person called and reported there was a bomb on the plane bound for Frankfurt," a ministry statement had said earlier in the day.

 

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